ShareText

A form builder for forms somebody has to read

Build it, publish it, work through the answers

Most form builders stop at the form. You get a beautiful page, a spreadsheet of answers, and a bill that grows with every response. The part nobody helps with is the rest of it — checking the address is real, asking for three referees without three sets of questions, and knowing which applications you have already dealt with.

This one is built for the other half. Questions that validate properly, a review queue with stages, and email or webhooks when something arrives. Nothing is metered by the response.

What you get

Free forever, with no cap on responses. File uploads, email actions and removing the ShareText line are on the paid plans.

  • Questions that check themselves

    Addresses with the right fields for the country, phone numbers validated against the real numbering plan, file uploads with types and size limits, and drawn or typed signatures.

  • Logic and repeating groups

    Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it, and let somebody add as many entries as they need — three referees, four passengers, every item on the claim.

  • A review queue, not a spreadsheet

    Responses arrive in a table you can search, sort and save views of, with stages you define and a board to move them through.

  • Told when it matters

    Email yourself or the person who answered, call a webhook, or move a response to a stage — each one conditional on the answers.

  • Describe it and see it

    Say what the form is for and read what comes back before anything is saved. Ask for a change and it rewrites. Nothing is stored until you keep it.

  • It does not watch your respondents

    No IP address, no user agent, no referrer, no time-to-complete. The country is worked out and the address thrown away. Answers to questions a branch never reached are discarded rather than stored.

How it works

  1. Build it

    Drag questions in, or start from a template, or describe the form and let it be written for you. Sets like Name and Contact details drop several questions at once.

  2. Make it yours

    Logo, colours, fonts and width. Then publish, and share the link, the QR code or the embed snippet.

  3. Work through the answers

    Search them, filter by stage, move them across a board, export what you need, and let the workflow email whoever should know.

Why the response limit matters more than the price

Most form builders charge by the response, and the cap is the thing that bites. A form that stops collecting at a hundred answers stops in the middle of whatever you were running — and the responses that arrive after it are not queued, they are gone.

Capability is a fairer thing to charge for than volume. Branding, a custom domain, extra people on the account: those are choices. The number of people who answered your form is not something you control, and being charged more for a good week is a strange way to be rewarded for one.

Built for the forms that are actually work

Grant applications, membership sign-ups, volunteer intake, vendor onboarding, tenant applications, job applications, incident reports. They have a lot of questions, the answers have to be right, and a person has to read every one.

That is why the address field knows which countries have no postal code, why a phone number is checked against the numbering plan rather than a regular expression, and why responses land in something with stages rather than a list.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a limit on responses?

No. What the paid plans buy is capability — removing the ShareText line from your form, a custom domain, more people on the account — not permission to receive answers.

Can I embed a form on my own site?

Yes, as an inline frame that resizes itself to the form, or as a button that opens it in a panel. Both are a copy-and-paste snippet.

What do you store about the people who answer?

Their answers, the time, and the country the request came from. Not the IP address it was worked out from, not the browser, not the page they came from. Answers to questions your logic never showed them are discarded rather than stored.

Can somebody sign a form?

Yes — drawn with a finger or mouse, or typed, and both work with a keyboard and a screen reader. It captures a simple electronic signature suitable for consent and acknowledgement; it is not a qualified e-signature service for high-value contracts.

Does it work with my other tools?

A webhook is sent for every response, signed so your endpoint can check it came from us. Exports are CSV, written either for reading or for feeding a system.

What happens to my forms if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted and nothing is held hostage. The form keeps collecting, the ShareText line comes back, and anything the free plan does not include simply stops — you can export everything at any time.

Build your first form

Free, and free of response limits. A form needs an account so you have somewhere to read the answers.